Posted on 06/28/2011 1:20:47 PM PDT by NYer
... the Catholic Church continues to teach that homosexual acts are "acts of grave depravity" (CCC, par. 2357) and that homosexual desires are "objectively disordered" (CCC, par 2358):
There have been many last straws for Richard Iandoli.
He was stung when his church’s hierarchy disparaged adoptions by gay couples, when his church emerged as a political leader against same-sex marriage, and by the way his church refers to homosexuality as “disordered.’’
Earlier this month, the insult was more personal: The Boston Archdiocese stepped in and postponed an “All are Welcome’’ Mass to commemorate Gay Pride Month at Iandoli’s church, St. Cecilia on Belvidere Street in Boston.
“It hits you in the gut,’’ Iandoli said. And he has wondered: What am I doing here?
Yet, like many gay and lesbian Roman Catholics, Iandoli refuses to walk away from his church, even when he feels that church leaders don’t want him. ...
The church’s position runs so counter to the growing acceptance of same-sex relationships that some gay Catholics say they are more bashful about their religious orientation than their sexuality.
“It was harder for me in my 20s to come out as a Catholic than as a gay person,’’ said Constance Cervone, 54, of Jamaica Plain.
The article, "Worship in the face of rejection" (Boston Globe, June 27, 2011) goes on and on in the same vein, with angry references to "the far-right conservative hierarchy" and the declaration by one man, Domenic Stagno, that "Even though the hierarchy has gone astray from the times of Christ, I’m not going to let them take my church away from me.’’ I've long held the silly belief that the Catholic Church was founded by and belongs to Jesus Christ, and now I learn it is actually the Church of Domenic Stagno. Why didn't someone mention it to me before?
Dave Pierre of TheMediaReport.com notes that this article is just the latest of a series of such pieces in the Globe; he writes:
From all of this coverage in the past few weeks, one would get the impression that the Globe thinks that the Catholic Church is alone in its opposition to gay marriage. Meanwhile, Orthodox Judaism, Islam, and many Protestant churches also hold the same disapproval. The paper has not profiled any of these organizations in the same negative manner, however.
The message from the Globe is clear: gay 'marriage' is good, faithful Catholicism is bad.
(Additional note: There is an interesting element to an accompanying online video to the Globe's front-page piece (Mon., 6/27/11). For the video, the paper interviews two gay men who attend Boston's aforementioned St. Cecilia. Both men not only rail against Church teaching but explicitly say that a main reason that they remain active parishioners is to "change the Church." There's a lot to swallow there. And for serious Catholics, this is somewhat sobering.)
Ping!
Here it comes! Catholics are guilty of hate speech!!!!
They are.
When the ‘out’ door develops similar sexual responses to the ‘in’ door of the female anatomy...I will say, yes, your behaviors are depraved.
i am old schooled... believe, don’t believe. don’t expect to change what others believe.
“gayness” does not breed gays... it is a choice that goes against nature.
teeman
Any Bible believing religion teaches this. It continues to amaze me that people are "SHOCKED" at this.
Not hate speech but speaking the Truth. As I wrote in our paper “If the truth hurts then you are obviously doing something wrong.”
Yes, I understand you are pointing to what they will try to do and that is exactly why Catholics need to get up off their butts and speak out loudly on this and many other issues. No more sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.
These people fail, utterly FAIL, to see that what is preached aginst is not a person, but a behavior, an activity.
It is sad that people will so link an activity to what they are.
Homosexuality, not the homosexual, is an abomination before God. The behavior, not the person.
Good question.
The message from the Globe is clear: gay ‘marriage’ is good, faithful Catholicism is bad.
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they wish to destroy the church, just as Mexico tried to do, when they outlawed it.
(progressives here, drool at the memory...)
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“Even though the hierarchy has gone astray from the times of Christ, I’m not going to let them take my church away from me.’’
/// he doesn’t own the church.
just as with any organization, including professional sports, there are rules for members. if you don’t want to play by the rules, leave!
“Any Bible believing religion teaches this”, Yet how many have succumb the gay culture? Just another reason so many denomination existent today. Yet God Truth has not changed.
They just want to pull the Catholic Church into the same sewer.
thought crimes. must be destroyed.
of course they want to change the church, the schools, the boy scouts and everything else.
Here’s what (OCA) Orthodox Bishop Michael of New York and New Jersey had to say about the new New York law:
http://www.nynjoca.org/files/2011/Release-2011.27.1.pdf
Well I’m not Catholic but I agree that homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity”.
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This is an orchestrated attack on the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church has not backed down to the homosexual agenda. Just wait. The homo-nazis will start attacking any other religious body that refuses to back down. This was planned. All these "devout gay Catholics" are enemies of the church, and any more "Devout Orthodox Jews" or "Devout Protestants" will be similar enemies. In wartime sometimes the enemy will don a uniform of the other side in order to perform stealth operations. That's all this is. Stealth destruction.
LOL, you can't make this stuff up!
Hear, hear.
Many years, and a resounding repeat of “Axios!” to His Grace.
Change the Church in what way?
To convince it to accept openly homosexual clergy, perhaps? Would that be a part of their agenda?
Too late. We've already tried it and are still sifting through the wreckage and picking up the pieces. Billions of dollars in abuse settlements later, I think we can safely say that the Catechism is right. Homosexuality is disordered.
No thanks.
The same Boston Globe which broke the news of the abuse scandals, the great majority of which involved same sex molestation, now chides the Church for being "anti-gay".
I hope you're all following closely, here. When male Catholic priests abuse young men.....bad Catholic Church!! When the Catholic Church preaches that sodomy is an act of "grave depravity".........bad Catholic Church!!
As the guy in the American Airlines commercial likes to say.... it's a "win-win situation!!"
Great statement from the Orthodox bishop. Many thanks from this Catholic.
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